The Wire: The Target (Pilot)

King of New York (1990)

Summary: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York’s poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Screenplay: Nicholas St. John
Director: Abel Ferrara

Cast: Christopher Walken, Larry Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo

Sopranos: Pilot

Dillinger (1945)

Summary: The rise and fall of John Dillinger and his associates from petty criminal to Public Enemy Number One.

Screenplay: Phillip Yordan & William Castle
Director: Max Nosseck

Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffries

The Public Enemy (1931)

The Conversation

Summary: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr

Heat

Summary: A Los Angeles crime saga focused on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief.

Screenplay: Michael Mann
Director: Michael Mann

Cast: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Amy Brenneman

Little Caesar (1931)

Night and the City (1950)

Bob Le Flambeur (1956)

Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Angels Over Broadway (1940)

Hard Eight

Thief

Light Sleeper

Carlito’s Way

To Live and Die in LA